Hosny Mubarak's last premier, Ahmed Shafiq, who is running for president, took the lead Wednesday in an opinion poll, a week before Egypt's presidential elections dpa reported
The poll, published in the independent newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, showed Shafiq, 70, wresting the lead from the 75-year-old frontrunner Amr Moussa, the former foreign minister, who topped the poll last week.
Shafiq is in the lead with 16.3-per-cent support, closely followed by Moussa with 16 per cent, according to the poll.
Moderate Islamist Abdul-Moneim Abul-Fotouh came third at 12.5 per cent, while Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi finished ourth at 8.8 per cent.
About 37 per cent of voters have yet to make up their minds, concluded the poll, the same figure as in last week's poll.
Shafiq was an air force commander and aviation minister under Mubarak before appointed prime minister in the early days of the revolt that eventually deposed the former president in February 2011.
Voting in the first round of the elections, the first since Mubarak's ouster, is to take place on May 23 and 24.
If no candidate secures an outright majority in that round, there will be a run-off between the top two candidates on June 16 and 17.